For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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